Monthly Archives: January 2013

Tue 29th January 2013
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Supermodel Cindy Crawford Wins The Domain CindyCrawford.com In A UDRP - Cindy Crawford whose full name is Cynthia Ann Crawford ,won the rights to the domain name CindyCrawford.com in a UDRP decision handed down today, by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Now that the decision is out its clear that the Supermodel never owned the domain, despite that the whois for many years showed her as the owner of the domain, and that the domain was pointed to Ms. Crawford’s site which is at Cindy.com It seems like Ms. Crawford was fine with the registration while ... read more ...
 
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Enom New gTLD Program Joining Parallels - eNom, a top 5 ICANN accredited registrar, and Parallels, worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization, today announced the inclusion of eNom’s new Top Level Domain (TLD) program in the latest version of Parallels Plesk Panel and in Parallels Domain Name Network (DNN). According to the press release out today, additionally, Chris Sheridan, vice president of business development for eNom, will conduct a session on the new TLDs program at Parallels Summit 2013, ... read more ...
 
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Webfest Dine with an Expert registration now open - Registration now open to meet experts at Webfest. I’ve always thought that one of the more interesting perks of DomainFest/Webfest is “Dine with an Expert”. Dine with an Expert lets you reserve a spot at the breakfast or lunch table with an event speakers. Webfest just opened up the registration page for this year’s Dine with an Expert. You can sign up to chat with people like Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, SearchEngineLand.com, Jay Weintraub of the LeadsCon ... read more ...
 
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YourBigIdea.co Super Bowl tie-in - Site shows you what your life might be like if you register your “big idea”. This weekend is a big one for .co as it runs its Super Bowl ad in conjunction with Go Daddy for the third year in a row. Dubbed YourBigIdea.co, it features a number of guys who don’t jump on the opportunity to register their domains and then one guy who does — and he’s flying on a private jet. .Co has a tie-in web site it’s promoting along with the ad at YourBigIdea.co. On YourBigIdea.co, ... read more ...
 
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3 domain companies group adult to give divided 4,000 domains during Webfest - Giveaway includes ten domain names per person. Above.com, Rook Media and ParkingCrew are teaming up for a unique promotion during next week’s Webfest: they’re giving away 4,000 domain names. The promotion lets up to 400 people get an account with 10 domain names. The domains are randomly selected from expired domains that receive traffic and have been parked with Rook Media and/or ParkingCrew. I think this is a smart promotion. It allows these companies to get ... read more ...
 
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Which Webfest auction domains are best? - Webfest auction is small but packed with great domains. Last week I previewed some of the domains that were added to the Webfest auction taking place next week in Santa Monica. Now that the list is finalized, let’s take a look. The first piece of good news: there are only 55 domain names in the auction. That means no mammoth auction that takes five hours to complete. The other good news: there are some great domain names in this auction. Of course, that doesn’t ... read more ...
Mon 28th January 2013
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Yahoo Reports: Search Revenue Up 4%; Paid Clicks Up 11%; Price Per Click Falls 2% - Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. The market liked the report as shares of Yahoo are up over 3% to $20.95 in after hours trading. As you can see below revenue from search was up 4% for the 4th Quarter of 2012 and up 2% for the year. GAAP revenue was $1,346 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, a 2% increase from the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,221 million for ... read more ...
 
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Google+ Passes Twitter To Become 2nd Largest Social Network - According to British research firm Trendstream’s Global Web Index, Google+ is now the 2nd largest social network, passing Twitter. Here are the ranking according to Trendstream: 1.  Facebook: 693 million monthly users, 51% of all internet users 2.  Google+: 343 million monthly users, 25% of all internet users 3.  Twitter: 288 million monthly users, 21% of all internet users 4.  YouTube: 280 million monthly users, 21% of all internet users Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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After Selling The Dodgers For $2.1 Billion, Frank McCourt’s Company Quitely Buys MG.com - It appears the McCourt Group purchased the two letter domain name MG.com in August 2012. The current registered owner of the domain name is Peter Wilhelm of the McCourt Group. One of the principals of the McCourt Group appears to be Frank McCourt who sold the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 Billion dollars to Magic Johnson’s group, Guggenheim Baseball Management in April of 2012. Frank McCourt was also involved in what has been referred to as the costliest divorce in the History of California. Peter ... read more ...
 
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Moniker.com & SnapNames.com Are Down - Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are down and have been down for a while. I tried accessing SnapNames.com at different times throughout the day. I did get to the front page of Snapnames.com once, earlier today and the front of the site said that some users were reporting having trouble accessing the site and that all auctions that were closing today would be extended to tomorrow. I do know that although the site was down, SnapNames.com was still catching dropping domains today and was sending out ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s patents: who will a association go after? - Company’s patent portfolio isn’t limited to domain name industry. Last week Verisign said it would consider ways to monetize its patent portfolio. The company’s patent portfolio is quite broad. In addition to covering domain names, it has patents and patent applications covering everything from digital cameras to online payments to databases to telecom. Who will it go after? Let’s take a look at some of the potential targets. Competing domain registries Verisign ... read more ...
 
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Now this is cool: LDS Domain Trends - See what’s hot in domain name registrations with this neat tool. Matt Mazur just released a killer tool on his Lean Domain Search: Domain Trends. The tool lets you type in any keyword and it will pull up domain registrations by date that include that keyword. Not only does it show a chart with the number of domains registered each day that include the term, but if you click on a chart point you can quickly see all of the domains registered on that specific day. Here’s ... read more ...
 
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When Chanel takes over a domain name, it sends a warning to others - Domains used to warn others that Chanel will pursue them. French fashion house Chanel has aggressively pursued counterfeiters and cybersquatters over the year. But what it does with many of the names it recovers is rather unique: it sends a warning to would-be counterfeiters and customers of counterfeit goods. Michele Neylon discovered one such example today. Here’s an example of one of the sites it took over: Chanel’s message warns counterfeiters that the company ... read more ...
Sun 27th January 2013
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Kevin.Murphy Looks Like A New gTLD Brand - I was at an opening of a hair salon the other night and saw a bunch of new products that look to be branded like new gTLD’s. All of the products carried the name of Kevin.Murphy. Of course inside the domain world Kevin Murphy is the publisher of the blog over at Domainincite.com whom I immediately thought of when I saw that these products that were titled in a very new gTLD type of way Then I was  told there is another Kevin Murphy who has a hair product line over at KevinMurphy.com.au (although ... read more ...
Sat 26th January 2013
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Twitter Goes With A .CO For New Mobile Video Creation Service: Vine.Co - The Tech World has been reporting on Twitter’s new mobile video creation service, Vine. The service, allows users to create and share looping videos. “Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity,” the company said in an official blog post. “Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create.” Vine.Co has had a bunch of stories written about it in Mashable.com, you can read here and here; as well as TechCrunch.com, ... read more ...
Fri 25th January 2013
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Blacknight Asks ICANN Whether They Will Allow Non-TM Generic TLDs To Be Closed -   Blacknight an ICANN accredited registrar, sent a second letter to ICANN urging the organization to formally clarify its position on Generic Key Word TLDs. Blacknight and fellow signatories of the letter seek clarification on non-trade marked generic key word TLDs, specifically whether ICANN will allow them to be operated in a “closed” manner. The most recent version of the “Registry Operator Code of Conduct” states that any applicant who wishes to operate a closed TLD would file an exception ... read more ...
 
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GameTruck.com Just Bought in 2012 For A “Significant Sum” Saved In UDRP - Game Truck Licensing, LLC, of Tempe, Arizona, just lost a UDRP on the domain name GameTruck.com in a decision handed down by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO) The decision is interesting because although the domain name was originally registered before the complaintant’s trademark was applied for, the domain holder just bought the domain name through DomainAdvisors.com in 2012,  for a “for a significant sum” Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: Complainant ... read more ...
 
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The Age aged Question Is Answered: Sin.net Sells For More Than PointSpreads.com - For thousands of years people have argued about things like, Sin and gambling? Now at least in domain name terms we have an answer, not as to which is worse, but to which is more valuable. The domain name Sin.net just sold on Namejet.com for $16,587 The domain name PointSpreads.com got purchased for a mere $12,877. Here are a few other notable sales from NameJet.com: Owl.net just got sold for just $2K Better to be a sinner than a wise Owl I guess. Chaz.com sold for $8,500, the only Chaz I’m aware ... read more ...
 
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The .Co Super Bowl Ad Is Very Much About Being A Domainer: Here You Go - The .Co Superbowl has been sneaked released and the tag line is not doubt “Sky Waitress” Someone registered the .com and .co of the term and no it wasn’t me. The concept of the ad is very domainer oriented, which is just because you have the great next idea don’t assume that other people all around the world won’t have the same idea, at basically the same time, and reminds everyone that the first to get and register the domain owns it, something that every domainer can appreciate So if ... read more ...
 
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Heads up, competing registries: Verisign competence start reporting the patents - Verisign evaluating how to make money from its patent portfolio. Competing domain registries, watch out. Much of yesterday’s Verisign investor conference call was focus on patents and Verisign figuring out how to profit from them. While saying it was too early to talk specifics, Verisign CEO James Bidzos said the company has many options. We have a large number of patents — a portion of our patents read directly on registry operations so we think that there are ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy.com .info auction ends today, Social.info over $7,000 - Auction of over 100 domain names is led by Social.info. An auction of 135 registry-held .info domain names ends today on GoDaddy.com. The top domain so far is social.info, which has 80 bids and is up to $7,305. (Social.com sold for $2.6 million in 2011.) Home.info, Computer.info, Fashion.info, and Test.info have all been bid up over $5,000. In a previous .info auction the top sales were cancer.info (which sold for $16,005 to an Arizona home care agency) and loans.info ... read more ...
 
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New TLD applicant that misspelled fibre finally fixes it - Kerry Trading Co. finally fixes a typo in its top level domain application. ICANN has posted 369 updated new top level domain applications, but most of the updates so far have been changes to directors, addresses, etc. But one of the recent changes is bigger. Kerry Trading Co. Limited has finally fixed a huge typo in one of its top level domain applications. The company meant to apply for .KerryLogistics, but accidentally typed kerrylogisitics. into the string field ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy finally offers a CDN, though it’s singular right now - Website Accelerator makes putting your Go Daddy-hosted site on a CDN simple. People who host their web sites with Go Daddy will finally get access to an integrated content delivery network (CDN) to speed up their sites. Go Daddy this week announced its new CDN offering called Website Accelerator. True to Go Daddy fashion, the company built its own CDN rather than relying on an outside partner. At first, only U.S. Deluxe or Ultimate Linux Web hosting accounts that ... read more ...
 
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The intriguing GoDaddy .co Super Bowl blurb (with a Danica Patrick cameo) - GoDaddy.co Super Bowl commercial is very different from its predecessors. Last night .co tweeted a link to its Super Bowl commercial. I’ve watched it a few times (it’s embedded below) so I can fully grasp what’s going on. The basic idea makes sense: a lot of other people have your same idea for a web site. Go register it today. But from there I make these observations: 1. The ad doesn’t really promote .co that much. Sure, .co sits on the screen the whole time, ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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ICANN Publishes “Thought Paper” On Domain Seizures Without Discussing Protecting Rights - ICANN just issued a “thought paper“” entitled “Guidance for Preparing Domain Name Orders, Seizures Takedowns” According to ICANN this  “thought paper” offers guidance for anyone who prepares an order that seeks to seize or take down domain names. ” However having read through the paper, what I don’t see discussed is the legal rights of registrants and protections they should be given from domain seizures. The “thought paper” from what I read assumes the domain holder in question ... read more ...